3886

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 114

higher position, payment in addition to salary at a rate equal to the
difference between his salary and the minimum salary of the class or
grade of the higher position, or £10 per annum, whichever is the
higher: Provided that in no case shall the payment in addition to
salary exceed the rate of £150 per annum.

PAYMENT OF SALARY AFTER SUSPENSION.

52. Unless it shall be otherwise specially ordered by the Commissioner, if any officer be suspended pending the investigation of any
    complaint or accusation against him, and he be afterwards dismissed
    from the Service, he shall receive no salary or pay from the date of his
    suspension; if he be reduced, the reduced rate of salary or pay shall
    take effect from the date of his suspension; but if he be fully acquitted
    of the charges made against him he shall receive arrears of pay in full
    from the date of his suspension.

BICYCLE ALLOWANCE.

53. An allowance not exceeding £5 per annum (to be fixed by the Permanent Head) may be made for the use by an officer of his own bicycle on official business.

MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTICE TO OFFICERS.

54. Whenever notice is by the said Act required to be given to an officer of any decision or of any other matter, it shall be sufficient if notice of such decision or matter is sent to such officer by a post-letter addressed to him at the office in which he is employed.

OFFICERS ON LEAVE.

55. Every officer passing through Wellington should, if time permits, report himself at the Head Office of his Department.

PENALTY FOR BREACH OF REGULATIONS.

56. Any officer or temporary employee committing a breach of any of these regulations for which no specific penalty is provided is liable to a fine not exceeding £10. If the Commissioner so directs, such fine shall not be enforced for three months, and if the officer's conduct has been satisfactory in the meantime, it may then be remitted. If enforced, it shall be deducted from the salary or wages payable to such officer or employee and paid into the Public Service Superannuation Fund. A record of all such fines shall be kept.

As witness my hand this seventeenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves of the foregoing special regulations.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Approved in Council this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendments in the Stores Regulations made under the Public Service Act, 1912.

WHEREAS by section thirty-four of the Public Service Act, 1912 (hereinafter called "the said Act"), the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor in Council, is authorized to make regulations for the carrying-out of the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, the Commissioner, in pursuance and exercise of the said authority, and with the approval of the Governor in Council, doth hereby, in respect of the Stores Regulations made under the authority of the said Act on the eighteenth day of April,